DOORS: more places

StoneOx17 · 09 Mar 2003, 16:16 · from urth-v0303.mbox · original

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From: StoneOx17 at aol.com
Subject: (urth) DOORS: more places
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:16:06 EST
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While we're on the subject, I've had some more ideas on Marea. =20
Marea means "tide" in Spanish.  This should mean it's on the=20
Pacific, in a formerly Spanish-speaking area.  (Does this mean=20
the Mexican-American war still took place in Otherworld?)  The=20
two obvious candidates are San Francisco and Los Angeles, and
neither of these names is possible in Otherworld.  The red-faced=20
man says Marea is at the "foot of the mountains," which=20
describes Los Angeles somewhat better.

So Marea is probably Los Angeles.  Where would Overwood be?   =20
It contains Crystal Gorge, the Metal Forest, Giants' Castle, The=20
Goddess's Pleasure Garden, forbidding narrow valleys and=20
mountains with snow-white peaks, including Mt Hieros.  So it's=20
probably somewhere in the Sierras.  Mt. Whitney and Death=20
Valley?  King's Canyon and Sequoia National Park?  Yosemite=20
and Hetch-Hetchee (in which case Marea would have to be San=20
Francisco)?  My current favorite is Death Valley and the=20
surrounding mountains; it's very apropos for a forbidden place,=20
and fits in beautifully with mantis' theory that men go to=20
Overwood to sacrifice themselves.

-- Stone Ox

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